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...Senator Hiram Johnson seems ever bit as loath as President Coolidge to announce an active candidacy. Mr. Coolidge is glad to let matters continue in their present form. Mr. Johnson has as yet no excuse for announcing a candidacy. The fact that he will probably be the first choice of the South Dakota pre-primary convention is only a matter of local politics. Mr. Coolidge will doubtless derive as much advantage from being named second as Mr. Johnson from being named first...
...decision must, of course, be made at the beginning of the year. It will be interesting to see just how many take the opportunity of broadening their general knowledge--or, perhaps, of postponing their labors until after Christmas--and how many will hesitate on the brink just a bit too long...
Chauve Souris. With the rest of fashionable America, Nitka Balieff and his Kussian troupe departed last Spring for a Parisian Summer. There they entertained Americans homesick for Broadway, Russians wearying for Petrograd, French wearying of their tawdry native entertainments. In the course of the trip Balieff forgot a bit more of his Russian, his English improved, his comedy became a trifle more intelligible...
Lady Eleanor Smith, 19-year-old daughter of Lord Birkenhead, now in the U. S.: " Said I, describing the Prince of Wales: ' He works so hard he doesn't have a lot of time for pleasure and, really, he is nice. I mean, not a bit conceited over the the idea that lots of girls like...
...Philadelphia Civic Opera Company plans to give a season of 16 or 18 performances of twelve operas. They intend to have a limited number of professional singers, together with amateurs. The use of amateur performers in the playing of opera is a bit of sublimity that makes one tremble. For chorus work (the chorus will number 125) something may be done with amateur talent, but for solo singing and orchestra playing-miracles happen, but not often...